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System Properties Comparison ClickHouse vs. GBase vs. InfinityDB vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. SQL.JS

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Name

SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

A high-performance, column-oriented SQL DBMS for online analytical processing (OLAP) that uses all available system resources to their full potential to process each analytical query as fast as possible. It is available as both an open-source software and a cloud offering.

Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.

A Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interface

Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	16.34
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	1.07
Rank	#185	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#378	Overall
	#57	Key-value stores

Score	0.53
Rank	#252	Overall
	#116	Relational DBMS

Website

www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html

Technical documentation

clickhouse.com/docs

boilerbay.com/infinitydb/manual

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

Developer

Clickhouse Inc.

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Boiler Bay Inc.

Sybase, SAP

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Initial release

2016

2004

2002

1993

2012

Current release

v24.4.1.2088-stable, May 2024

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

4.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

commercial

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

no

no

no

no

no

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

C, Java, Python

Java

JavaScript

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Data scheme

yes

yes

yes

nested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical â€˜tuple spaceâ€™ runtime Schema upgrade

yes

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes

yes

all Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arrays

yes

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

no

yes

no

no

no

Secondary indexes

yes

yes

no

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

Standard with numerous extensions

no

yes

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MySQL wire protocol
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Proprietary protocol

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/docs/ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

C#

3rd party library
C++
Elixir

3rd party library
Go

3rd party library
Java

3rd party library
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party library
Kotlin

3rd party library
Nim

3rd party library
Perl

3rd party library
PHP

3rd party library
Python

3rd party library
R

3rd party library
Ruby

3rd party library
Rust
Scala

3rd party library

C#

Java

Delphi
Perl
PHP

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

no

yes

no

Triggers

no

yes

no

yes

no

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

key based and custom

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

none

none

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Asynchronous and synchronous physical replication; geographically distributed replicas; support for object storages.

yes

none

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

no

no

no

no

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

READ-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

no

yes

no

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

yes

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

no

ACID

ACID

Optimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loads

ACID

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes

yes

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes

yes

yes

no

except by serializing a db to a file

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

no

no

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles. Column and row based policies. Quotas and resource limits. Pluggable authentication with LDAP and Kerberos. Password based, X.509 certificate, and SSH key authentication.

yes

no

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

no

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